Bellevue made the group of old scholars at the Saint-Cyr Military Academy speechless for a while, but after all, he was from a political background, and this little problem did not bother him.

"I'm not going to be the next Napoleon! I'm going to be the first Bellevue! What Napoleon can do, I will do! What Napoleon couldn't do, I'm going to do too! ”

Because of Belville's identity, a group of experts from the St. Cyr Military Academy really couldn't refute him, but they still reminded him.

"The border fortresses that the Kingdom of Sardinia has built for generations are not so easy to break.

We recommend that your army should first pass through Belgium to Prussia and then attack from north to south, so that there will be least resistance. ”

"Or you can attack the enemy and save it."

Another expert suggested after seeing Bellevue's lack of interest in step-by-step tactics.

"Attack the enemy and save it?"

Bellevue was immediately interested, and he was tired of the tactic of attacking Belgium first, then Prussia, and then Austria from the north to the south.

And there is a huge danger to this tactic, that is, the situation in France may not last long.

In fact, because the economic crisis and the food crisis that plagued France did not improve in any way, the protests of the people in Paris never stopped.

After Kafenjac took command of the Paris garrison, he carried out several repressions, but the problem was not resolved.

The Second Republic hopes to re-establish its image in the minds of the people with a victory, but it is unclear whether this gamble will succeed even in the top echelons of the Second Republic.

"That's right! Attack the enemy and save it! Alsace-Lorraine, a member of the German Confederation in France. ”

"Alsace-Lorraine?"

Bellevue asked with some confusion, for Marshal Grouchy had been discredited here before, and he was somewhat hesitant to start a war here.

"Yes, General Bellevue.

The reason why the German Confederation intervened in Belgium was that Belgium was part of the German Confederation, so it was also a part of the German Confederation that Alsace-Lorraine was in the fire, should they also save it?

If the German coalition did cross the Rhine again to rescue Alsace-Lorraine, then we could have been half-crossed, as the Austrians did. ”

Half-crossing, this is definitely a very desirable state, especially in this era, when artillery is raised to the level of the god of war.

And when crossing the river, the artillery units could not be deployed, let alone organize an effective counterattack.

This is also the worst-case scenario for infantry and cavalry, where infantry loses formation protection and cavalry loses mobility.

However, commanders usually try to avoid this from happening, but there are exceptions to all cases, such as receiving a death order.

It is not difficult to create such a premise, for example, by allowing soldiers to behave in the land of Alsace-Lorraine.

The so-called German nationalists in the Frankfurt Parliament had to come to the rescue, otherwise their ideas, their theories, would all become a joke.

This is definitely a very vicious plan, and it is indeed a must to attack the enemy.

However, there are some things that they don't understand, and the so-called poisonous schemes all have a price.

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If you can understand it, you can not read it below-

The French army repeatedly ravaged the land of Alsace-Lorraine, and the local population was already overwhelmed.

Even people who originally had a sense of belonging to France could no longer love a country that did not love them at all.

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After the explanation-——

Bellevue was appreciative of the plan, but was not interested in the concrete plan for an attack on Belgium that would later be proposed by the experts.

After his personal absorption and summarization, he finally formulated a set of guidelines for the French army to go out on all fronts and achieve a complete victory.

First of all, the first way is to take revenge on the Belgians. After all, where you fall, you have to get up from there, and you can't help but have a face in France.

This was mainly to satisfy the mood of the population and the vanity of the old men in the council, and Bellevue was not prepared to really invest too many troops in this direction.

The target of the second road was Alsace Lorraine, and Bellevue was still very self-aware, and he handed over this seemingly greatest merit to Marshal Ramosilier.

It's easy to say that you are surrounded by reinforcements, but the actual operation is not something that he can do with this kind of civilian function.

And according to the estimates of those experts of the Military Academy of Saint-Cyr, in the Rhine (Alsace-Lorraine) they would face directly the main forces of the German Confederation.

It is true that Bellevue wants to make immortal achievements, but he also does not want to take the blame, and the Rhine battlefield is obviously not suitable for him.

The third route was the Roches Pass, which was to enter Switzerland. Their only purpose was to grab territory, and the Swiss region should have been French land in the eyes of the Second French Republic.

The previous ceding of most of the land to the German Confederation was a manifestation of the incompetence of the Orleans.

The so-called "all the people of the Swiss mountain people" are soldiers and brave and good at fighting, which is not worth mentioning in the eyes of the French, after all, it is not the first time that they have speeded up the Swiss copy.

At this time, Switzerland had been cut into countless pieces by the German Confederation, so it was even less worthy of mention in the eyes of the French.

Bellevue even felt that even if he had won a big victory in the Swiss mountains, he would only be given a condolence award for his hard work.

Therefore, Bellevue chose the fourth route, that is, from the direction of the Kingdom of Sardinia to the rich plain of northern Italy.

This is the path that Napoleon once walked, which had a special significance for the French army, especially those of the so-called Napoleonists.

Of course, it also hit the softest belly of the Austrian Empire, and the rich northern Italian region was its most important source of finance.

As a French soldier, it is impossible for Belvie not to know the deeds of Napoleon, sacking the rich northern Italy to boost morale and create a completely loyal and incomparably strong army, confiscating and auctioning off aristocratic land to win over commoners and capitalists (merchants).

As for the so-called Kingdom of Sardinia and the senile Marshal Radetzky, Bellevue did not take it seriously.

The Kingdom of Sardinia, which claimed to have an army of 100,000 before the war with the Austrian Empire, was defeated to the capital within a week.

And Marshal Radetzky was completely unable to enter Belvie's eyes, after two French veterans, Grouchy and Oudinot, suffered heavy defeats, which made him feel that Napoleon's era had passed.

Those old antiques of the old times are completely unworthy of this great new era, and Bellevue specially found a group of young people from the St. Cyr Military Academy who agreed with his concept, and he wanted to send Radetzky, the remnant of the old era, on his last journey to the new era with his corpse.

The fifth route was to send the French Great Eastern Fleet to cooperate with the British to blockade the Adriatic Sea.

The naval method was strenuously opposed, since by this time the fleet needed to be repaired, many ships were already in a critical state, and acting with the British would expose the reality of the weakness of the French navy.

However, there is also another version of the rumors, that is, the sailors of the Great Eastern Fleet were afraid of the Austrian Navy.

(End of chapter)